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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.

Robert Kennedy

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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Confusion Direction Religion Slave
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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Change Enemy Motivation Progress Word
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
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Fear Journey Path People Truth Walk
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
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Activity Body Commitment Enough Future Human See Shape Task Understand Willing
Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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Hope Ideal Stand Time
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
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Domination Journey Light Reason Victim World
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
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Comfortable Existence Future History Land People Present Security Time
Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
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Books Home Hospital Nation Togetherness Tools War
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Enemy Forgiveness Name
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
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Aware Obligation Stay Thinking
Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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Man Myself Question Sight
This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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Breed Cleaning Ourselves Sick Society Soul Violence
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
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Dedication Life Man Savage Tame World Writing
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
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Account Industry Pollution Water
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
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Community Criminal Deserve Force Kind Society
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
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Build Dreams Force Honor Live Ourselves Willing

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